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There have been studies showing that unemployment directly increases mortality here is just one [0]. [0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448606

• asveikau 7y ago
  That's interesting, sad, and makes intuitive sense. But I'm not sure we can take it back and say "we need to allow more people to die from coronavirus so that fewer die from unemployment". Ideally we would want to minimize both.
  • nitrogen 7y ago
    One day when we have the benefit of hindsight someone will do an analysis on the quality-adjusted life years gained and lost by the different responses to this.